Lots of new stuff coming in the Fate and Time 0.34 Patch: New Cards, Holiday Pack, Gauntlets, and Balance changes.

NEW CARDS

Chronos (Greek)

Ranged unit, God, 5 mana, 4/4, Epic

Player turns last 20 seconds.

Xing Tian (Chinese)

Melee unit, God, 5 mana, 2/2, Rare

Warcry: Deploy an axe. Friendly units that end their turn on it gain +4/+4 and consume it.

Aftershock (Chinese)

Spell, 2 mana, Rare

Deal 2 damage to an enemy unit. If the unit is Stunned, deal 5 instead.

Beckoning Strike (Chinese)

Spell, 3 mana, Rare

Deal 2 damage and spawn a random 2 cost unit.

Caldera Nova (Roman)

Spell, 6 mana, Epic

Explode all Lava tiles dealing 1 damage to adjacent enemies. If this card is included in your deck, the match starts with two Lava tiles on the battlefield.

Equalize (Hindu)

Spell, 3 mana, Common

Draw a card from your deck and from your opponent’s deck.

Gift of the Nile (Egyptian)

Spell, 1 mana, Common

Give a friendly unit Afterlife: spawn a 1/1 version of this unit.

Power Delve (Roman)

Spell, 7 mana, Rare

Discover a unit that costs 7 or more and reduce its cost to 0.

Recursive Vitality (Chinese)

Spell, 1 mana, Common

Give a God +1/+0. When you play a God, return this card from your graveyard.

Soul Bind (Hindu)

Spell, 2 mana, Common

Select two units that cost 4 or less. When one dies, the other dies.

Voice of Eternity (Egyptian)

Spell, 1 mana, Common

Discover a card with Afterlife.

NEW HOLIDAY PACK

Get ready for the Winter Holidays with the Hand of the Gods Holiday Pack! The Holiday pack will replace the Halloween Pack in the store on all platforms with the release of OB 0.34. The pack includes Limited Edition Skins for Hand of the Gods, featuring a new unit model, Special FX, Sound FX, and Card Art. In addition to unit skins, the Holiday Pack includes exclusive Leader skins for Ah Puch and Nu Wa, along with two Limited Edition Holiday Avatars, and a Holiday Card Back!

Each Holiday Pack opened will unlock a skin, avatar, or card back you have not already unlocked (Gods skins will award 2 copies). Holiday Skins are not disenchantable, and will only be available for the duration of the promotion.The Holiday Pack will be purchasable for 300 Runes and unlock one of the following with each opened:

Nu Wa Leader Skin – Nice and Naughty

Ah Puch Leader Skin – Nutcromancer

Geb God Skin – Snowman

Ratatoskr God Skin – Festive

Fenrir God Skin – Wreck the Halls

Holiday Avatar – Ruderp

Holiday Avatar – Pupresent Kaldr

Holiday Card Back

NEW GAUNTLETS

Weekday Gauntlet 1: Time Shift

Player turns last 30 seconds.

8 Wins Rewards:

2 Core Packs

100 Favor

Cutesy Fafnir

Weekday Gauntlet 2: Colossal

Decks can only include cards that cost 5 or more. Players start with 5 mana.

8 Wins Rewards:

2 Core Packs

100 Favor

Cutesy Merdusa

Weekend Gauntlet 1: Sharing is Caring

Player’s draw from their opponent’s deck. Decks must include at least 15 unit cards.

8 Wins Rewards:

3 Core Packs

150 Favor

Cutesy Ah Muzen Cab

Weekend Gauntlet 2: Highlander

Players can only have one copy per card in their deck.

8 Wins Rewards:

3 Core Packs

150 Favor

Cutesy Zhong Kui

Only decks created from your collection and meeting the deck requirements will be eligible for use in the Gauntlet. This must be done before entering the queue.

Rewards will be granted to players who achieve 8 wins.

Monday at 5am EDT – Friday at 5am EDT players will be able to access two weekday gauntlets.

Friday at 5am EDT – Monday at 5am EDT players will be able to access two weekend gauntlets.

After a player has won or lost a specific gauntlet type, they will not be able to enter that same gauntlet again until the daily cooldown resets at 5am EDT.

GENERAL

Halloween Pack

The Halloween Pack will be turning off with OB 0.34, this is players last chance to get the limited edition Skins, Avatar, and Card Back:

A big patch is scheduled to be released next week and will introduce a bunch of new cards, deck search and filtering, and the new queue: The Gauntlet!

WHAT’S NEW

New Cards!

Aegean Outcast – Neutral

Melee Unit, 4 Mana, 4/4, Common

Warcry: Swap the attack and health of a unit.

Occult Deadeye – Neutral

Neutral Ranged Unit, 5 Mana, 4/4, Rare

Afterlife: Return a random god from your graveyard and reduce its cost by 1.

Siege Master – Neutral

Ranged Unit, 3 Mana, 4/1, Common

Warcry: Destroy two Structures.

Sellsword – Neutral

Melee Unit, 3 Mana, 3/3, Common

Warcry: Heal your Summoning Stone for 3.

Tusky – Neutral

Melee Unit, 3 Mana, Beast, 4/2 , Common

Warcry: Move to a random enemy unit and stun them.

Da Ji – Chinese

Melee God, 5 Mana, 5/5, Epic

Warcry: Give a Beast +2/+2.

Inferno – Chinese

Spell, 10 Mana, Common

Deal 8 damage.

Artemis – Greek

Ranged God, 7 Mana, 4/5 , Rare

Warcry: Reveal the top card of your deck. Deal its cost as damage to an enemy.

Shock and Awe – Greek

Spell, 3 Mana, Rare

Silence an enemy and trigger a friendly god’s Warcry.

Bacchus – Roman

Melee God, 4 Mana, 4/4 , Rare

At the start of your turn, Bacchus drinks his wine and gets an additional random effect.

Protect 1

+1/+1

Attacks hit adjacent enemies

Immune: Melee

War Burden – Roman

Spell, 3 Mana, Common

Target a unit. The owner’s cards cost 1 more until the unit is removed from play.

Grave Dig – Mayan

Spell, 1 Mana, Rare

Discover a card from your graveyard.

Agni – Hindu (Adjusted Passive)

Costs 4 to play at first.

Warcry: Deal 1 damage to enemy units.

Attack reduced from 4 to 2.

Reincarnate cost is 6 mana.

Reincarnate Warcry: Deal 2 damage to enemy units.

Aspect of Life – Hindu

Spell, 2 Mana, Rare

Discover a 1/1 clone of a random unit in your hand.

Shard of Bhum – Hindu

Spell, 1 Mana, Common

Deal damage to an enemy unit equal to the number of Structures you control.

NEW FEATURE: DECK SEARCH AND FILTER

This patch we are introducing a robust Deck Builder Search and Filter system, with multiple options to sort through your collection. All filters options are togglable, so players can identify exactly what type of card they want in their deck. The filter is accessed in your collection menu by selecting the Filter icon next to the Disenchant Extra option. The Deck Builder Search and Filter allows players to sort through the following options:

Search

Look up any card by name or card text!

Included Unowned Filter

Included Owned Goldens Filter

Mana Cost Filter

Players will be able to select multiple Mana Costs when using this filter.

Type Filter

Beast

Structure

God

Leader

Rarity Filter

Free

Common

Rare

Epic

Legendary

Keyword Filter

Afterlife

Banish

Charge

Discover

Guard

Immune

Melee

Protect

Ranged

Reincarnate

Root

Silence

Stealth

Stun

Warcry

NEW QUEUE: THE GAUNTLET

Everything is on the line in our new game mode! The Gauntlet is comprised of four individual queues that players can compete in to earn unique rewards with each patch cycle. Every patch will feature four separate game mode variants with different requirements that change the way you build your decks and play the game.

Compete against other players with the goal of reaching 8 wins, but be careful, one loss and your run ends. Players will only have a single entry per day into each of the two active gauntlets, so plan your decks carefully before entering.

Gauntlet Details

Only decks created from your collection and meeting the deck requirements will be eligible for use in the Gauntlet. This must be done before entering the queue.

Rewards will be granted to players who achieve 8 wins.

Monday at 5am EDT – Friday at 5am EDT players will be able to access two weekday gauntlets.

Friday at 5am EDT – Monday at 5am EDT players will be able to access two weekend gauntlets.

After a player has won or lost a specific gauntlet type, they will not be able to enter that same gauntlet again until the daily cooldown resets at 5am EDT.

Open Beta Patch 0.32 – The Hunt Gauntlet Rotation

Week Day Gauntlet 1: Pauper

Players can only create decks that are comprised of Free and Common Cards.

Rewards

8 Wins: Chang’e Cutesy Avatar + 2 Core Packs + 100 Favor

Week Day Gauntlet 2: Divine Battle

Decks must contain at least 10 God Cards from Norse, Greek, or Mayan. Players can only queue with Norse, Greek, or Mayan decks but they must contain at least 10 Gods.

Rewards

8 Wins: Cutesy Skadi Avatar + 2 Core Pack + 100 Favor

Weekend Gauntlet 3: Prodigal

Players can only create decks that contain Rare, Epic, and Legendary Cards. This means that no Free or Common cards can be used.

Rewards

8 Wins: Cutest Freya Avatar + 3 Core Packs + 150 Favor

Weekend Gauntlet 4: Pantheon Wars: Egyptian vs Chinese

Players can only queue with Egyptian or Chinese decks. This means that all other pantheons are not allowed in this queue

Rewards

8 Wins: Cutesy Bastet Avatar + 3 Core Packs + 150 Favor

GENERAL

Quick Open Packs

We have added a quick open option for players to open their card packs instantly. Players can either select the button, or press spacebar to use the quick open feature.

Unit Bars

Added an icon for Silence on Unit Bars.

Collection

Cleaned up text formating for deck names.

Added a delay when mousing over units inside of the Collection Screen.

Units no longer say their voice lines in the collection screen.

Turn Timer

Turn timer has been reduced from 80 to 70 seconds.

Tooltips

Cleaned up text formatting for Keyword Tooltips on Cards.

BALANCE

Annihilation – Egyptian

Mana cost increased from 6 to 7.

Anubis – Egyptian

Attack reduced from 4 to 3.

Health reduced from 5 to 4.

Aphrodite – Greek

Warcry is no longer removed from a friendly unit when Aphrodite is killed.

The Pumpkin Patch will introduce some new Halloween flavored cards and designs to the game as well as some card balance and bug fixes!

OPEN BETA 0.31 – THE PUMPKIN PATCH

WHAT’S NEW

Halloween Pack

The Halloween Pack will introduce our first set of Limited Edition Skins for Hand of the Gods! These skins feature a new unit model, Special FX, Sound FX, and Card Art.

The Halloween Pack will be purchasable for 300 Runes and unlock one of the following with each opened:

Grim Mariachi Loki (1 Copy)

Jack the Reaper Thanatos (2 Copies)

Slaughterhouse Chaac (2 Copies)

Feline Fashion Awilix (2 Copies)

Limited Edition Pum-Pukin Avatar

Limited Edition Vesuvius Card Back

Each Halloween Pack opened will unlock a skin, avatar, or card back you have not already unlocked. Halloween Skins are not disenchantable, and will only be available for the duration of the promotion.

Default Avatar

This has been changed to match the Hand of the Gods Logo.

GENERAL

Players can no longer be matched against the same player twice in a row.

New players will now be given a Bonus Pack for completing their first Casual, Arena, and Ranked match. These rewards will also be given retroactively to all active players.

From this patch on, all players will receive a free Arena Ticket at level 1 which grants one free entry to the Arena.

Ranks will reset with OB 0.31 and are planned to reset every 2 months going forward. This marks the start of our “Open Beta Season” and players can expect ranked rewards to be sent out with each future reset.

Arena rewards for 10, 11, and 12 wins have been adjusted.

10 wins: 600 Favor and 2 Core Packs

11 wins: 450 Favor and 3 Core Packs

12 Wins 575 Favor and 3 Core Packs

BALANCE

Arachne

Cost reduced to 2

Attack reduced from 5 to 1.

Health reduced from 5 to 2.

Spiderling is now type Beast.

Lernaean Hydra

Now only gains +3/+0 when attacking.

BUG FIXES

Added Special FX for Bulwark.

Sprint can no longer be cast on Pillars.

Anhur now properly stops Skadi from activating her Warcry.

Anhur now properly stops Sagittarius from activating his Warcry.

Illusion now properly clones buffs gained through Sobek’s ability.

Fixed an issue where Kumbhakarna was unable to receive attack buffs if silenced before he was reincarnated.

Fixed an interaction with Illusion that would kick both players to lobby.

A new Starter Pack, Clans, Deck Tracker, and New Cards are coming in the 0.29 patch that will be released this Thursday or Friday!

WHAT’S NEW

The Starter Pack!

We’re introducing a Starter Pack which includes a Ra Sunstar leader skin and 7 core packs for $4.99!

Clans

This patch we have added Clans to Hand of the Gods! Players can now work together with a clan of 25 players to complete the Weekly Clan Quest which will reward players with a Pack of Cards.

Daily Login Bonus

In 0.29 we have added a Daily Login Bonus to reward players for consecutively logging in throughout the week. Players will Favor and a Bonus Pack for logging in throughout the week. The Daily Login bonus replaces the First Win of the Day Quest in your quest log.

Combat Log

The Combat Log has been completely redesigned. The Combat Log can now be found in the top left hand side of the screen and it provides additional information such as what unit attacked who! You can see all of this information by simply hovering on a card inside of the Combat Log.

Deck Tracker

We’ve added a brand new system called the Deck Tracker. The Deck Tracker can be opened by selecting the Deck Icon on the bottom right of your UI. The Deck Tracker keeps track of all cards you have played, what cards are left in your hand, and what Cards your opponent has played.